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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Charleston, WV

April 29, 2008McDowell County, Wyoming County, West Virginia; 5 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this frost advisory at Apr 29, 2008, 9:33 PM EDT for McDowell County, Wyoming County, West Virginia; 5 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Apr 30, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 2008, 9:33 PM EDT (01:33 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 30, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired
Apr 30, 2008, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Athens County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH, Vinton County, OH, McDowell County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 274 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2008-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2008-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1965 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.